Aurélia’s Oratorio

Who but the French could come up with such a riveting combination of physical theater, comedy, magic and dance – all set to a quirky soundtrack of accordions, chamber music, and gypsy jazz? In Aurélia’s Oratorio, a circus theater spectacle performed by Aurélia Thierrée, inspired by European circuses and imbued with a magical, visual wit, nothing is what it seems: Ice cream appears burning hot, clothes are hung out to be watered, an alarm clock trills when it is time to sleep and an overcoat wrestles its owner to the ground.